[CPEO-BIF] Environmental Justice for All legislation

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleaning up Tucson's South Side water pollution part of Grijalva enviro bill
Local leaders call for support for Environmental Justice for All Act to clean up PFAS & TCE contamination

by Bennito L. Kelty
Tucscon Sentinel (AZ)
April 20, 2022


Local leaders in Southern Arizona came together Wednesday to throw their support behind the Environmental Justice for All Act, a congressional bill that aims to treat pollution in communities of color as a civil rights violation and create local funding for environmental cleanup. 

U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, the Tucson Democrat who chairs the House Committee on Natural Resources, introduced the bill last March, but said he’s spent his political career undoing damage in Tucson’s low-income and Latino communities caused by water contaminants like ​​trichloroethylene and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also called TCE and PFAS. 

Water pollution has threatened area residents for years and cleaning it up has been a priority for local, state and federal representatives of Southern Arizona. High levels of PFAS, a long-lasting chemical used in plastics, coating and firefighting foams, polluted a regional groundwater aquifer near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base several years ago that was the main source of drinking water for more than 65,000 people. Similar incidents have affected Tucson’s mostly Latino South Side in the past.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/042022_tucson_enviro_grijalva/cleaning-up-tucsons-south-side-water-pollution-part-grijalva-enviro-bill/


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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